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European Poker Tour San Remo Day 3 Recap
The PokerStars.com European Poker Tour San Remo started day three with 124 players and it wasn’t long before the bubble burst with player 113. The record attendance of 1,178 was stripped back with rapid frequency over the preceding days and day three was no different as play was stopped early when the magic number of […]
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European Poker Tour San Remo Day 3 Update
Day-three play in the PokerStars.com European Poker Tour San Remo began with 124 players — just 11 from the bubble. From the record attendance of 1,178, this was a dramatic drop, and play was stopped early when the magic number of 32 remained. Benjamin Kang had an early double-up with aces versus queens and went […]
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WPT Championship — Day 3
The third day at the World Poker Tour Championship at Bellagio saw 162 players return to continue the march down to the final table and a first-place prize worth $2,143,655. The huge starting stacks have kept the action slow for most of the way, but today the speedy nature of no-limit play imposed its will. […]
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LAPT — Dominik Nitsche Wins Mar del Plata Grand Final
The PokerStars Latin American Poker Tour Grand Final took place in Mar del Plata, Argentina, and the $5,200 no-limit hold’em main event attracted 291 players, including Team PokerStars pro J.C. Alvarado, who is fresh off of his win in the $1,000 buy-in PokerStars Spring Championship of Online Poker main event. The turnout set a record […]
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Poker Stars Begins Running WSOP Satellites
The wait is over. Last weekend, PokerStars began running satellites into the biggest tournament of the year — the World Series of Poker main event. PokerStars, the site that consistently sends the most players to Las Vegas every year, is the last of the major poker sites to start offering qualifiers into the main event. […]
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Curzon Cruises to Betfred Ladies Poker Tour Win
Emily Curzon, a 25-year-old from Kent won the first leg of the Betfred Ladies Poker Tour last Saturday. She beat 84 opponents at the Alea Casino, Leeds, England to claim the £3,000 and a seat in the Grand Final in November . Betfred juiced the prize pool to the tune of £1,500 before Curzon got […]
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Israeli Wins Second European Masters of Poker
Israeli Reuven Dayan has won the second €1,100 buy in European Masters of Poker which took place in Varna, Bulgaria at the weekend. He topped the 311 strong field which was considerably up on the 248 players which played the first event in Tallinn, Estonia and won €77,750 for his efforts. The final table payouts […]
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Women's World Open III Announced
The PartyPoker.com Women’s World Open will take place from May 24 to May 27, 2009 with 36 players taking part in the $3,000 event including Annette Obrestad, Sandra Naujoks (pictured right), Jennifer Tilly, and Veronique Gourdon. Returing to take part in the event will be last year’s winner Soraya Homam from Germany. Obrestad, who will […]
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European Poker Tour San Remo Day 2 Recap
The field combined on day two at the PokerStars.com European Poker Tour San Remo with 469 players taking to the felt from a total of 1,178. Some notable players sure to mix it up included Alessio Isaia, Isabelle Mercier, Jani Vilmunen, Joe Elpayaa, Juha Helppi, Marcel Luske, Marcin Horecki, Nasr el Nasr, Ramzi Jelassi, and […]
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European Poker Tour San Remo Day 2 Update
On day two at the PokerStars.com European Poker Tour San Remo, 469 players took to the felt from a total of 1,178, and the tension could be cut with a knife. Players took shelter from the drizzly weather outside, and most came straight from the local pizzeria or gelateria for the start of a four-day-long […]
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WPT Championship — Day 2
It took eight levels and just under three days, but the entire remaining field at the WPT Five-Star World Poker Classic was finally able to fit inside the Fontana Lounge. The first two days of play saw only 36 players bust, leaving 302 to crowd each and every table available, including part of the main […]
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Bodog Prepares for its Third Poker Open Tournament Series
Three-tiered tournaments are so ‘in’ right now. Bodog will offer three unique buy-in levels for its Bodog Poker Open III tournament series, which kicks off this Sunday, April 26. The popular poker site will offer a championship series (with entries ranging from $55 to $500), a mid-stakes series (from $22 to $163), and a mini-bounty […]
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Online Poker — Scott 'SCTrojans' Freeman Runner-Up at PokerStars
It was definitely a down week for the majority of the sites in the wake of the Spring Championship of Online Poker (SCOOP). Every site’s major Sunday tournament failed to meet its guarantee except for Cake. Despite the decrease in traffic, there were still some major tournament victories from some of the game’s best players. […]
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Harvard Study Says Online Poker Risks Moderate
The widespread availability of online gambling has not led to an increase in the number of people becoming addicted to gambling the Harvard Crimison reported yesterday. The study, undertaken by the Harvard Medical School Division on Addictions, observed 3,445 poker players on Austrian site Bwin since February 2005 and was designed to thoroughly investigate whether […]
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German, 18, Wins Latin American Poker Tour Grand Final
Eighteen-year-old Dominik Nitsche from Miden in Germany has won the PokerStars.net Latin American Poker Tour Season Two Grand Final in Mar del Plata, Argentina topping the field of 291 players in the $5,000 + $200 event to win $381,030. It took just four hours to get to heads up play with Nitsche holding a 2:1 […]
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European Poker Tour San Remo Day 1B Recap
The PokerStars.com European Poker Tour San Remo has become the largest poker EPT ever held in Europe with yesterday’s 600 runners making the total turnout 1,178. The participants created a prize pool is €5,713,000 and the winner will receive €1.5 million. Click here to check the full payouts for the top 112 players in San […]
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European Poker Tour San Remo Day 1B Update
The official numbers are in, and the PokerStars.com European Poker Tour San Remo has become the largest EPT ever held in Europe with yesterday’s 600 runners, making the total turnout 1,178. The prize pool is €5,713,000, and the winner will receive €1.5 million ($1.9 million). Click here to check the full payouts for the top […]
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WPT Championship — Day 1B
The second day-one flight of the 2009 World Poker Tour Championship attracted 211 players, to bring the total player count up to 337. The first-place prize will be $2,143,655, and the top 50 players will make the money. The field size is down 208 players from the field of 545 from last year, when the […]
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European Poker Tour San Remo Day 1A Recap
The PokerStars.com European Poker Tour San Remo could break attenndance records for a European event with 1,200 players in total expected over both starting days. 578 players took to the felt on Day 1A yesterday and a similar filed is expected today (the Caribbean Adventure attracted over 1,300 players in January). Some of the more […]
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European Poker Tour San Remo Day 1A Update
The PokerStars.com European Poker Tour San Remo could break participation records, as 578 players took to the felt on day 1A yesterday. With over 200 online qualifiers from the sponsor’s site, the total field looks likely to hit 1,200, setting a new record for a Europe-based event (the Caribbean Adventure attracted over 1,300 players in […]
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WPT Championship — Day 1A
The times, they are a changin’. With the U.S. economy struggling, the $25,000 WPT Five-Star World Poker Classic mustered a disappointing 126 for its first starting day. The attendance is expected to dramatically increase for day 1B, but it’s clear that last year’s total of 545 will not be reached. There have been many speculations […]
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Grosvenor UK Poker Tour Manchester Underway
The fourth leg of the Grosvenor UK Poker tour rolls into the G Casino, Manchester today with a £100 no-limit hold’em freezeout. A series of side events precede the £1,000 main event which starts on Thursday. Apr. 23. Play in the main event will start over two days at 2 p.m. and up to 300 […]
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Three Ways to Hit the WSOP with Boylepoker
Boylepoker is offering three separate ways to get to the World Series of Poker this year with packages available for the no-limit hold’em main event, pot-limit Omaha world championship, and two side events. Super satellites for packages to the $10,000 no-limit hold’em world championsip event (worth $13,000) take place every Sunday at 8 p.m. BST. […]
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Bodog Adds Five Satellite Seats to CP-Exclusive Tourney Tomorrow
For just $11, Bodog will provide an opportunity for Card Player readers to win a seat into Bodog’s Flight Club Semifinal (valued at $270). And if that wasn’t enticing enough, the popular poker site has announced that it will add at least five additional seats on top of the prize pool, meaning there will be […]
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WPT Championship Begins on Saturday
The first day of action at the $25,000 buy-in World Poker Tour Championship begins on Saturday, Apr. 18 at noon, and Card Player will be providing full live coverage from the event, including live updates, chip counts, photos, and videos from Card Player TV. This annual event, hosted at Bellagio, is one of the marquee […]
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This Week in Poker: Poker Tournament News Apr. 11-17
Check out CardPlayer.com every Friday for a weekly wrap-up of the news from the live poker tournament trail. Card Player Player of the Year Update 1: Poorya Nazari — 3,000 2: Jude Ainsworth — 2,840 3: Cornel Cimpan — 2,730 4: Anthony Gregg — 2,500 5: Steve Brecher — 2,340 6: Chris Moore — 2,110 […]
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Online Poker — OPOY Update, April 17, 2009
There were two new faces to the Online Player of the Year top 10, which, of course, meant that two players were bumped out. Continue reading below to find out how the best players in the game performed this week. It was a bittersweet week for OPOY leader Shaun "tedsfishfry" Deeb (pictured right). Deeb was […]
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Poker's David Grey Gives the Inside Scoop on Andy Beal
It was the Durrrr challenge on steroids. And truthfully, that description doesn’t do it justice. In 2001, Andy Beal challenged the greatest poker pros in Las Vegas to heads-up games that saw $10 million swings. It was Beal vs. “The Corporation,” immortalized in Michael Craig’s novel The Professor, The Banker, and The Suicide King. Now, […]
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PKR.com Announces Team PKR Pro Signings
PKR.com, the 3-D online poker room, yesterday announced the six players who will make up Team PKR Pro. Three of the names will be recognisable to many players: TV presenter Ashley Hames, Grosvenor UK Poker Tour champion Andrew Teng, and Irish Open main event finalist Kai Danilo Paulsen; while the other three are regular high-profile […]
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European Poker Tour Hits San Remo This Weekend
The PokerStars.com European Poker Tour pulls into the northern Italian town of San Remo this weekend for its penultimate stop of season five before moving down the riviera into France for the Grand Final in Monte Carlo. So far over 200 players have qualified online at PokerStars and the cap of 800 already exceeded (over […]
